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Ok, there's brave, and then there's STUPID! ![[Linked Image]](http://www.boardy.de/images/smilies/kopfpatsch.gif) Confronting her fears, she remembered her therapist saying, was one of the best ways of dealing with them. Yeah, when they can't KILL you! ![[Linked Image]](http://www.absolute-reality.com/forums/images/smilies/hair.gif) "Really?" Mary said. "That's odd. The guard had your keys. He was trying to return them to you." AAAAHHHHHHHHH! Run! Run NOW!!! "Oh." Ellen smiled mechanically. She'd been sure she'd lost those keys at the Daily Planet. Was it possible she'd been mistaken?
No, it wasn't. She'd driven to the Planet, and she'd had to use her keys to do it. The security guard had lied, and there was only one reason he would do that. Ellen gulped down the lump of panic that tried to rise in her throat. This time she couldn't tell herself that it was all her imagination.
There was a chime as the elevator slid to a stop and the doors opened. <phew!> It seems to not be the only bell ringing! She finally figured it out. Now, RUN! No, not into the PARKING GARAGE! Another rush of footsteps, and again, silence.
She felt as if she were spotlighted in front of the elevator, a target for whoever it was that was stalking her so frighteningly. She couldn't stay here! <whimper> You can scream your head off, and nobody will come. But Superman will! Change in plans, forget running, SCREAM!!!  she aimed the little canister of teargas and sprayed her captor full in the face.
Ellen sprayed him again, for good measure. Go!!! Ellen!  There was a whoosh of air, heralding the arrival of Superman, but held tightly in Sam's arms, Ellen barely noticed. Well, it's about time!
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly.
- Under the Tuscan Sun
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Wow!
The release of tension just about has me laid out on my desk, Nan! Wow!
Excellent installment; I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the last installment still to come.
Another excellent Nan story almost completed!
Irene
who frequently rereads and enjoys all your stories and should tell you so more frequently....
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
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Wow is right!  My heart was in my throat all the way through, but - go, Sam and Ellen! What a team!   Brilliantly suspensful, Nan! Roll on the conclusion! LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Whew... you really had my heart rate up with this one, Nan! Go, Ellen! She rocks. Go, Sam!! To the rescue. I love it that Superman's superfluous  Post more, soon! PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
--Stardust, Caroline K
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Hi, Great part.  ps Don't spoil with sneak preview.
Maria D. Ferdez.
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Don't like Luthor, unfinished, untitled and crossover story, and people that promises and don't deliver. I'm getting choosy with age.
MAF
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Nan, my foot was shaking like a high speed metronome... tick tick tick ... wow, you are truly the mistress of suspense! I have loved every second of this story and am now going to waiting anxiously for the end.
Marns
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Pant, pant, pant.. ~Liz PS. Rivka you made my day with your comment recap!! 
Lois: Can I go?
Clark: No.
Lois: Oh come on, Clark, why do we go through this? We both know I’m going to go.
Clark: Then why do you ask?
Lois: I’m trying to be nice.
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Nan WOW! A superb part! This is excellent and I can't wait to read the conclusion. Tricia 
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YAY Ellen Yay Sam! OK now we know where lois gets it from. Yay Superman! What a cute little coment at the end. While Ellen was in Sams arms she didn't even notice Superman! LOL Cute, more soon. Laura
Clark: “If we can be born in an instant, and die in an instant, why can’t we fall in love in an instant?”
Caroline's "Stardust"
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Nan,
excellent part
ditto others
can't wait for the conclusion
soon please
merry
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